THE FLATS OF DE AAR
Be Aar, in the heart of South Africa, lias suffered a plague of mis. Do Aa f , a name that does not mean much to mmsiiers in 1929, but before the Great Bar it meant much to the Britons who were waging a war in South Africa with old Ifuil Kruger and his Boers. De Aar was the railway junction between Cape Colony and the Transvaal where men and guns end stores and sick soldiers were dumped. It is as desolate now as then, for it lie> in the middle of the Great Karroo scorched bv heat ’n summer, swept by dust-laden winds in all times, and bitterly cold in winter. It is now a railway camp of lin-roo.ed bungalows whose inhabitants wonder why even a rat should come there. But rats by the ten thousand lateiy came into the town and died there. Nobody knows why or what drove them in from the desert. De Aar is a poor place lo live in, but none knows why rats should seek it out to die in.
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Evening Star, Issue 20140, 3 April 1929, Page 13
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181THE FLATS OF DE AAR Evening Star, Issue 20140, 3 April 1929, Page 13
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